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Thatte, Victoria

2011

Infant Phonotactic Learning 

Ryan, Kevin 2011 Gradient Weight in Phonology

 

Homer, Vincent 2011 Polarity and Modality

 

Becker-Kristal, Roy
2010 Acoustic typology of vowel inventories and Dispersion Theory: Insights from a large cross-linguistic corpus
Gunkel, Dieter
2010 Studies in Greek and Vedic Prosody, Morphology, and Meter
Kim, Ji Eun
2010 The Generation of Implicit Propositions in "Alleged" Korean Topics
Ishizuka, Tomoko 2010 Toward a Unified Analysis of Passives in Japanese: A Cartographic Minimalist Approach
Lofstedt, Ingvar 2010

Phonetic Effects in Swedish Phonology: Allomorphy and Paradigms

Neilsen, Kuniko Yasu 2008 Word-level and Feature-level Effects in Phonetic Imitation

Tang, Katrina Elizabeth

2008

The Phonology and Phonetics of Consonant-Tone Interaction 

Khan, Sameer

2008

Intonational Phonology and Focus Prosody of Bengali 

Neilsen, Kuniko Yasu

2008

Word-level and Feature-level Effects in Phonetic Imitation 

Okabe, Reiko 

2008

Child Causatives: Acquisition of Bi-clausal Structures in Japanese 

Mwita, Leonard Chacha

2008

Verbal Tone in Kuria 

Pertsova, Katya

2007

Learning Form-Meaning Mappings in Presence of Homonymy: a linguistically motivated model for learning inflection 

Martin, Andrew

2007

The Evolving Lexicon 

Shademan, Shabman

2007

Grammar and Analogy in Phonotactic Well-formedness Judgments 

Heinz, Jeffrey

2007

Inductive Learning of Phonotactic Patterns 

Kobele, Greg

2006

Generating Copies: An Investigation into Structural Identity in Language and Grammar

Gilkerson, Jill

2006

Acquiring English Particle Verbs: 

Age and Transfer Effects in Second Language Acquisition 

Ntelitheos, Dimitrios 

2006

The Morphosyntax of Nominalizations: A Case Study

Esposito, Christina

2006

The Effects of Linguistic Experience on the Perception of Phonation

Lillehaugen, Brook

2006

Expressing Location in Tlacolula Valley Zapotec.

Foreman, John

2006

The Morphosyntax of Subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec

Arbisi-Kelm, Timothy

2006

An Intonational Analysis of Disfluency Patterns in Stuttering

Jackson, Eric

2005

Resultatives, Derived Statives, and Lexical Semantic Structure

Fleischhacker, Heidi

2005

Similarity in Phonology: Evidence from Reduplication and Loan Adaptation

Torrence, Harold

2005

On the Distribution of Complementizers in Wolof

Buell, Leston

2005

Issues in Zulu Verbal Morphosyntax

Lin, Ying

2005

Learning Features and Segments from Waveforms: A Statistical Model of Early Phonological Acquisition

Albro, Daniel

2005

Reduplication in Optimality Theory: Computation and Analysis

Scarborough, Rebecca

2004

Coarticulation and the Structure of the Lexicon

Liu, Haiyong

2004

Complex Predicates in Mandarin Chinese: Three Types of Bu-Yu Structures

Riggle, Jason

2004

Generation, Recognition, and Learning in Finite State Optimality Theory

Kim, Sahyang

2004

The role of prosodic phrasing in Korean word segmentation

Avelino Becerra, Heriberto

2004

Topics in Yalalag Zapotec, with Particular Reference to its Phonetic Structures

MacBride, Alex

2004

A Constraint-Based Approach to Morphology

[abstract]

McCrary, Kristie

2004

(Romance Linguistics) Reassessing the Role of the Syllable in Italian Phonology: An Experimental Study of Consonant Cluster Syllabification, Definite Article Allomorphy and Segment Duration.

[abstract]

Caponigro, Ivano

2003

Free Not to Ask: On the Semantics of Free Relatives and Wh-Words Cross-linguistically 

Storto, Gianluca

2003

Possessives in Context: Issues in the Semantics of Possessive Constructions

[abstract]

Matondo, Masangu

2003

Tone and Prosodic Morphology in Kisukuma

Baltazani, Mary

2002

Quantifier scope and the role of intonation in Greek

Albright, Adam

2002

The Identification of Bases in Morphological Paradigms

[abstract]

Epstein, Melissa

2002

Voice Quality and Prosody in English

[abstract]

Vegnaduzzo, Stefano

2001

(coming soon) 

Harkema, Hendrik

2001

Parsing Minimalist Languages

Cho, Taehong

2001

Effects of Prosody on Articulation in English

[abstract]

Foreman, Christina

2001

(coming soon) 

Garrett, Edward

2001

Evidentiality and Assertion in Tibetan

Zhang, Jie

2001

The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Contour Tone Distribution--Typological Survey and Formal Analysis

[abstract]

Gimba, Alhaji Maina  

2000 

Bole Verb Morphology 

[abstract]  

Ueyama, Motoko

2000

(Applied Linguistics) Prosodic Transfer: An Acoustic Study of L2 English vs. L2 Japanese

[abstract]

Zuraw, Kie

2000

Patterned Exceptions in Phonology

[abstract]

Fulop, Sean

1999

On the Logic and Learning of Language

Stack, Kelly

1999

Innovation by a Child Acquiring Signing Exact English II

Gordon, Matthew

1999

Syllable Weight: Phonetics, Phonology and Typology

[abstract]

Thomas-Vilakati, Kimberley 1999 Coproduction and Coarticulation in IsiZulu Clicks (published 2010, UC Press)

Harada, Tetsuo

1999

(Applied Linguistics) The Acquisition of Segmental Timing by Children in a Japanese Immersion Program

[abstract]

Kirchner, Robert

1998

An Effort-Based Approach to Consonant Lenition

[abstract]

Hess, Susan

1998

Pharyngeal Articulations 

Grinstead, John

1998

(Applied Linguistics) Subjects, Sentential Negation and Imperatives in Child Spanish and Catalan

[abstract]

Blankenship, Barbara

1997

The timecourse of breathiness and laryngealization in vowels

[abstract]

Nagahara, Hiroyuki

1994

Phonological phrasing in Japanese

Robert E. Hagiwara 1995 Acoustic Realizations of American /r/ as Produced by Women and Men (P. Ladefoged, chair)

Aaron M. Shryock 1995 Investigating Laryngeal Contrasts: An Acoustic Study of the Consonants of Musey (R. Schuh and I. Maddieson, co-chairs)

Dani M. Byrd 1994 Articulatory Timing in English Consonant Sequences (P. Keating, chair)

John-Dongwook Choi 1992 Phonetic Underspecification and Target- Interpolation: An Acoustic Study of Marshallese Vowel Allophony (P. Keating, B. Hayes, chairs)

Sarah N. Dart 1991 Articulatory and Acoustic Properties of Apical and Laminal Articulations (P. Ladefoged, chair)

Abigail C. Cohn 1990 Phonetic and Phonological Rules of Nasalization (B. Hayes, P. Keating, chairs)

Marie K. Huffman 1989 Implementation of Nasal: Timing and Articulatory Landmarks (P. Keating, chair)

Michel T.T. Jackson 1988 Phonetic Theory and Cross-Linguistic Variation in Vowel Articulation (P. Ladefoged, chair)

Hongmo Ren 1986 On the Acoustic Structure of Diphthongal Syllables, (P. Ladefoged, chair)

Wendy J. Linker 1982 Articulatory and Acoustic Correlates of Labial Activity in Vowels: A Cross-Linguistic Study (P. Ladefoged, chair)

William J. Greenberg 1982 Aspects of a Theory of Singular Reference: Prolegomena to a Dialectical Logic of Singular Terms (P. Schachter, chair)

George Papçun 1980 How do Different Speakers Say the Same Vowels? Discriminant Analysis of Four Imitation Dialects (P. Ladefoged, chair)

Ava Berinstein 1984 Evidence for Multiattachment in K'ekchi Mayan (W. Bright, D. Perlmutter, chairs)

Jonas N.A. Nartey 1982 On Fricative Phones and Phonemes: or the Fricative Difference within and between Languages (P. Ladefoged, chair)

Carlos Piera

1980

(Romance Linguistics) Spanish Verse and the Theory of Meter 

Catherine P. Browman 1978 Tip of the Tongue and Slip of the Ear: Implications for Language Processing (P. Ladefoged, chair)

Sandra F. Disner 1983 Vowel Quality: The Relation between Universal and Language Specific Factors (P. Ladefoged, chair)

Godinez, Manuel Jr. 1978 A Survey of Spanish and Portuguese Phonetics

Leon C. Jacobson 1979 DhoLuo Vowel Harmony: A Phonetic Investigation (V. Fromkin, W. Welmers, chairs)

Louis M. Goldstein 1977 Three Studies in Speech Perception: Features, Relative Salience, and Bias (P. Ladefoged, chair)

Dale R. Terbeek 1977 A Cross-Language Multidimensional Scaling Study of Vowel Perception (V. Fromkin, chair)

Baruch Elimelech 1976 A Tonal Grammar of Etsako (V. Fromkin, chair)

Laura F. Meyers 1976 Aspects of Hausa Tone (P. Schachter, chair)

Mona E. Lindau 1975 Features for Vowels (P. Ladefoged, chair)

Van Lancker, Diana 1975 Heterogeneity in Language and Speech: Neurolinguistic Studies Features for Vowels (P. Ladefoged, chair)

Lorian Baker 1973 The Lexicon: Consideration for a Performance Model (V. Fromkin, chair)

Kay Atkinson King 1973 Children's Acquisition of Phonological Stress Contrasts (P. Ladefoged, chair)

Stephen D. Krashen 1972 Language and the Left Hemisphere (V. Fromkin, chair)

Timothy S.J. Smith 1970 A Phonetic Study of the Function of the Extrinsic Tongue Muscles (P. Ladefoged, chair)

Harshman, Richard 1970 Foundations of the PARAFAC Procedure: Models and Conditions for an “Explanatory” Multi-modal Factor Analysis: A Phonetic Study of the Function of the Extrinsic Tongue Muscles (P. Ladefoged, chair)

John Ohala 1969 Aspects of the Control and Production of Speech (P. Ladefoged, chair)

William J. Greenberg 1969 Aspects of a Theory of Singular Reference: Prolegomena to a Dialectical Logic of Singular Terms (P. Schachter, chair)

Harry A. Whitaker 1969 On the Representation of Language in the Human Brain: Problems in the Neurology of Language and the Linguistic Analysis of Aphasia (V. Fromkin, chair)

Vanderslice, Ralph 1968 Synthetic Elocution On the Representation of Language in the Human Brain: Problems in the Neurology of Language and the Linguistic Analysis of Aphasia (V. Fromkin, chair)

Chin Woo Kim 1966 The Linguistic Specification of Speech (P. Ladefoged, chair)

Victoria A. Fromkin 1965 Some Phonetic Specifications of Linguistic Units: An Electromyographic Investigation (P. Ladefoged, chair)


Dissertations by Mail Order  

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The following volumes are now available, at the cost of $10.00 per volume. Add $15 per volume for Air Mail outside of North America. Make check or money order payable to UCLA Linguistics Department.

  • #1 Phasing and Recoverability
    by Daniel Silverman (1995)
  • #2 Perceptual and Articulatory Factors in Place Assimilation: An Optimality Theoretic Approach
    by Jongho Jun (1995)
  • #3 Heavy Pied-piping in Nweh
    by Michael Nkemnji (1995)
  • #4 The Determination of Grammatical Relations in Syntax
    by Jack Martin (1991)
  • #5 Phonological Phrasing in Japanese
    by Hiroyuki Nagahara (1994) [now also available on line; see above]
  • #6 Scope Dependency in English and Chinese
    by Feng-Hsi Liu (1990)
  • #7 Syntactic Dependencies and the Spec-Head Agreement Hypothesis in Kilega
    by K.K.W. Kinyalolo (1991)
  • #8 The Typology of Rounding Harmony: An Optimality Theoretic Approach
    by Abigail Kaun (1995)
  • #9 The Internal Syntax of DP
    by Daniel Valois (1991)
  • #10 Verb Incorporation and Elementary Predicates
    by Murat Kural (1996)
  • #11 Extending the Binding Theory: A Muskogean Case Study
    by George Aaron Broadwell (1990)
  • #12 Verbal Nouns in Japanese
    by Kaoru Ohta (1994)
  • #13 The Grammatical structure of Verbal Predicates
    by Richard Campbell (1989)
  • #14 Evaluating Claims of Distant Relationships: The Case of Khoisan
    by Bonny Sands (1995)
  • #15 Roots in Language Acquisition: A Comparative Study of Japanese and European Languages
    by Tetsuya Sano (1995)
  • #16 The Phrase Structure of Quantifier Scope
    by Filippo Beghelli (1995)
  • #17 Direct Object Scrambling in Dutch and Italian Child Language
    by Jeannette Schaeffer (1997)
  • #18 Semantic Trees
    by Dorit Ben-Shalom
  • #19 Description Theory, Licensing Theory, and Principle-Based Grammars and Parsers
    by Thomas Cornell (1992)
  • #20 Consonant Clusters and Cue Preservation in Tsou
    by Richard Wright (1996)

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